I don’t worry about pselling mixstakes and typing eorors :) JK.... Regards, Pavanaja --------------------------------------------------------- Dr. U.B. Pavanaja CEO, Vishva Kannada Softech http://www.vishvakannada.com/ 91-80-23309693, 91-9341980400 Think Globally, Act locally

This is the famous Mysore University encyclopedia. 13 volumes have come out so far. Its work started long ago, may be about 15 years ago. 13th volume came out about 2 years ago. 14th volume is expected. Since the release of volumes took so much time gap, there are every few people who have all the volumes. I have read some portions of it. Especially, the section on computer. Very well written. G T Naraya Rao is a good Kannada scince writer. His specialty is astronomy. Recently Mysore University, in collaboration with a private company and Kannada Ganaka Parishat are bringing out the encyclopedia in CDs. But the sad part is that they are not using Unicode and hence the CDs are already obsolete. Regards, Pavanaja --------------------------------------------------------- Dr. U.B. Pavanaja CEO, Vishva Kannada Softech http://www.vishvakannada.com/ 91-80-23309693, 91-9341980400 Think Globally, Act locally

On 5/18/05, Pavanaja U B <pavanaja(a)vishvakannada.com> wrote: yeah, the standard of kannada used is very high, which is what makes it a good read. (It is quite exhaustive on details, as well, though obviously latest stuff would be missing from it all the time, no matter how frequent the volume releases are.) Having said that, there are issues: 1) It is not available online. 2) It cannot be made available for free. (Few of you here might already know that kannada wikipedia is experimentally being bundled with Maitre* CDs, which will go to numerous rural schools... More here: http://kannada.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Maitre) * - Pramod has been working on morphix that would include complete kannada support and is installable in a jiffy (and can be run 'live' via CD as well). Kannada wikipedia would be included as static html on the CD. 3) It is not available in an electronic, searchable media [1] (One has to go look up indexes manually to find the articles) One can arguably say that it (as of now) is a gem that fits aptly in a traditional library. 4) Last, but not least, It is not like *wiki* ;) [1] - I just had a chance once to look at the CDs and apparently what we find on the CD-ROMs is a Flash applet. Moreover, as pointed out by Dr. U.B.P, there ain't any unicode, so no-searchability (it might probably have a topic Index - but thats different) -- http://www.hpnadig.net/blog/ "Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties." ~ Erich Fromm